Encrypted ZFS Backups

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One of OpenSolaris's heralding features is a next-gen filesystem called ZFS. Managing ZFS backups could not be easier. All you need to run is zfs snapshot tank/dataset@backup. If you want to replicate or store that snapshot on another machine, you can run zfs send tank/dataset@backup > backup.zfs.

I'll be demoing how to use GPG2 to encrypt ZFS backups created with zfs send. Here's the commands I used to do it: